The Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Handbook
Practical Tools for Growth, Connection, and Leadership for Everyone
By: Shirita Nash, ACC, ODCP, SHRM-CP

Book Synopsis

Emotional intelligence affects all aspects of our lives—personal, professional, and everyday events. Whether navigation personal transitions and goals, managing conflict, building relationships or leading your teams or family, we are all navigating an unpredictable world and no matter our level of success, we face setbacks and challenges.

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In The Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Handbook: Practical Tools for Growth, Connection, and Leadership for Everyone, Coach Shirita Nash guides with a “mirror and compass” using 10 specific self-paced topics to help you explore how emotional intelligence and resilience can become essential tools for weathering life’s storms, uncovering strength, and navigating unforeseen turns on your continuous journey of growth and connection. Whether you’re already thriving or seeking ways to lead a more fulfilling life, this book equips you with practical tools grounded in emotional intelligence: self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, social skills, and motivation. Packed with actionable insights, it’s designed to empower you to deepen your understanding of yourself, strengthen your relationships, and navigate challenges with confidence and resilience.  

 

Applying a theoretical foundation to practical reflection and activity prompts from her repertoire as a personal coach, organizational development professional, and personal growth advocate with over twenty years of experience, Nash has written a handbook to implement manageable but effective techniques to take readers from self-awareness—the first stepping stone toward emotional intelligence—to resilience. Through carefully selected stories, quotes, research, examples and systematic processes, she illustrates how to identify unique patterns and “surf the waves of chaos” with intention and purpose.